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WILLIAM HANSE, OF BROOKLYN, NEW YORK, ASSIGNOR TO JOSEPH T. PERKINS, OF SAME PLACE.

LOOlVl-TEIVIPLE FOR TUBULAR FABRICS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 329,037, dated October 2'7, 1885.

Application filed November 15, 1884. Serial No. 147,995. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that 1, WILLIAM HANsE, a resident of Brooklyn, in the county of Kings and State of New York,haveinvented an Improved Loom-Temple for Tubular Fabrics, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact de scription, reference being made to the accompanying drawings, in which- Figure 1 is a sectional elevation of part of a loom having my improved temple applied thereto. Figs. 2 and 3 are enlarged side views of the temple. Fig. 4 is a detail face view, on a still largervscale, of the front or face plate of the temple, the loop being shown in section. Fig. 4 is a detail sectional View, on the same scale as Fig. 4,0f portion of the temple. Figs. 5 and 6 are sectional side views of part of the loom having the temple applied thereto, and showing the parts in different positions. Fig. 7 is a horizontal section of the temple. Fig. 8 is a top view of the same; and Fig.9, a crosssection of the same on the line It It, Fig. 8. Fig. 10 is a detail crosssection of the tubular fabric made on the loom.

This invention has for its object to adapt an ordinary loom to the weaving of tubular or cylindrical fabrics, and the invention consists in the application to the loom of a yielding temple, over and under which the shuttle is thrown alternately, and around which the fabric is woven in such manner that the shuttlethreads can be drawn tightly, all as hereinafter more fully described.

In the drawings, the letter 'A indicates the frame of an ordinary loom. Y B is a beam from which the warp-threads are taken. 0, D, E, and F are the heddles of the harness. G is a lay or batten of theprdinary or suitable kind; H, the shuttle. I"IT are two rollers, between which the finished fabric passes to the main receiving-beam L.

M represents my temple. The same is composed of a loop, a, and of a block, b. The block b, which may be of wood or other suitable material, is in cross-section of the form of the tube to be woven-that is, oval, substantially as indicated in Fig. 9. The ends of the loop a are headed within the hollow block b, as shown at (1, Figs. 4 and 7, and are pressed forward, so as to elongate the instrument, by springs e, which are contained within the block b. The springs crowd these heads against the face-plate f of the block b. This plate has oval holes (see Fig. 4) through which the ends of the loop a project. The oval form of the holes permits the loop a to be inclined upwardly, as in Fig. 2, and downwardly, as in Fig. 3.

The temple M, which has just been de scribed, is to be of a length which will permit it to be inserted between the rollers I J and the lay or bat-ten G whenever the latter is at its greatest distance from the former. (See Fig. 6.) In this position the extreme end of the loop portion a is just in front of the lay, while the end of the block portion 6 bears against the rollers I J. Of the warp-threads, some pass over the temple M, some under it, and for Weaving a tube there will be as many warp-threads ordinarily placed above the temple as there are beneath it, these warp-threads finally passing between the rollers I .ll around the beam L.

When the weaving is to commenoe,the heddles O D E arelowered and the heddle Fraised, as in Fig. 1. The heddle E, which guides some of the warp-threads that run above the temple M, causes the loop portion a to be depressed, when it carries its warp-threads down,and thus the shed is opened by the heddles E F above the temple M for the shuttle H to pass through. After the shuttle has thus passed through the open shed above the temple M (and it will be seen from Fig. 1 that the shuttle is intended to pass directly above the loop a) the heddle D is raisedand the heddle O lowered, as in Fig. 5. The heddle D, which guides some of the warp-threads that are always beneath the temple M, causes the loop portion a to be inclined upwardlywhen it(the heddle D) is raised, and thus a shed is opened beneath the loop a for the shuttle to pass through on its return motion. Hence it will be seen that the shed can be alternately opened above and below the loop a, and that the shuttle will draw its thread around said loop, and that said thread can be drawn sufficiently tight and evenly, and that thus a continuous tubular fabric can be produced without necessitating a resort to any selvage, and without regard to the speed of the loom.

Whenever the shuttle has passed through a shed, the lay or batten Gis nioved'toward the rollers I J to beat the new shuttle-thread home, and in this forward motion it carries the loop it along with it, compressing the springs 6 within the block I). WVhen the lay or batten recedes afterward,the said springs cause the loop portion a to follow. Fig. 6 shows the position of the lay and of the temple M when the lay is ready to move toward the rollers I J and beat the new shuttle-thread home. I find it desirable to have the loop a closed in front by its cross-bar 9, (see Fig. 8,) and to have thelay or batten strike it,and thus shorten the temple by compressing the springs 6, rather than pass the side rods of said loop through the lay or batten, for I find that in the latter case, although it would no longer be nec essary to make the temple M compressible, the lay would be quickly destroyed by the rods that would necessarily pass through it, and as necessarily be made up and down ad-. justable. i

It will be perceived that the tube is woven around the temple, and at the place where it is woven about the loop a the said loop has a a cross-section equal to the inner circumference circumference as the internal circumference of the tube to be woven.

The beam L receives its motion for drawing the fabricalong in any suitable manner, and the rollers I J serve in this case more for the purpose of abutments for the end of the temple M than for any other purpose; hence it is clear that instead of these rollers rods may be substituted, so long as they effect the same purpose.

I claim- 1. The combination of the block b with the loop a, pivoted thereto, and with the springs therein contained, all arranged to constitute a compressible temple for looms to weave tubular fabrics around the same, as specified.

2. The combination of'the compressible temple M with the abutting rollers I J of the loon1,against which said temple'is placed,substantially as herein shown and described.

. WILLIAM HANSE.

' Witnesses:

CHARLES G. M. THOMAS,

GUSTAV SOHNEPPE. 

